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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 532,642, dated. January 15, 1895. Application filed $eptember 17,1894:- serial No. 523,179. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN S. CROWELL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Spring field, in the county of Clark and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Toys, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings/ This invention relates to a certain new and improved toy consisting of an inflatable and recoiling body provided with a suitable mouth piece or opening adapting it to be inflated with the breath by application to the lips; and adapted, by the act of inflation, to be uncoiled or distended with a certain flirt or flap and to recoil and contract when allowed to exhaust the air.

In the accompanying drawings on which like reference letters indicate corresponding parts, Figure 1, represents a side elevation of my improved toy in what may be termed its normal state; Fig. 2, a similar view of the same partially inflated and consequently partially uncoiled; Fig. 3,a plan view of Fig. 2; Fig. 4., a detail sectional View showing awhistle or air sounding device which sounds when the air exhausts; and Fig. 5, a similar view in which the device whistlesor sounds when the air is blown into the toy.

The letterAdesignates the body of the toy, composed of paper, or practically air-tight fabric, or other suitable material, fashioned into the form of a tube or case. Combined with this tube or case is some form of spring which will act to recoil or wind up and shorten the tube or case in one direction but will permit of the longitudinal distention of the tube or case when the latter is charged with air. This spring, in the form illustrated, is shown at B and consists of a narrow thin strip embedded within two thicknesses of the tube or case, preferably fprmed by overlapping the edges of the strip of which itis made. This spring may, however, be otherwise connected to, the tube or case and otherwise located, but the means and place of location and the form of spring illustrated are preferred. At one end the tube or case is supplied with a mouth piece 0 by which, when placed to the mouth, the breath may be blown into the tube or case, which it will expand or open out laterally and also uncoil or distend. When blown suddenly or violently the tube or body inflates and distends with a suddenness that produces a flap and I pop after the fashion of a whip when suddenly cracked. Its action is both startling and amusing and before one standing near by can realize what it is, and what has happened, it collapses and recoils and presents essentially a mere ring, as seen in Fig. 1.

In Fig. 4 the mouth piece 0 is modified so as to include a second orifice D to which is applied any convenient form of whistle, say

that shown at E, or other type of wind-sounding device, as a reed, by which a sound is produced as the toy recoils when the air is exhausted.

In Fig. 5, the mouth piece is again modified so as to include a whistle, or air sounding device, which becomes audible by the act of blowing into the device, so that the sound and the flapping and distendin g all take place at about the same time.

The surfaces of the tube or case may be ornamented or embellished with comic characters or pictures or may be occupied by advertising matter. 1

I regard myself as the first to invent a. toy operating upon the principles herein set forth,

and accordingly lay broad claim thereto.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-- 1. A toy constructed of a tube or casing, and a spring to normally wind or coil it, the tube or casing being lengthwise distensible by inflation and re-coilable by exhaustion, and a mouth piece including a sounding device, the sounding device being adapted to sound by the passage of air to or from the casing.

2. A toy constructed of a tube or case adapted to be inflated, and a spring connected thereto lengthwise thereof and act- 

